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War Writing Retreat

March 11th, 2010

By Jan Barry Far from the televised spectacle of Olympic athletes whooping or weeping in joy or anguish in pursuit of split-second victories, some other highly dedicated young people quietly gathered to share strategies for coping with relentless physical and emotional turmoil—in this case, from participating in deliberately deadly international contests. The gathering of edgy […]

Articles written by Jan Barry
Tags: art, poetry, retreat, veterans, workshop, writing
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Dave Barry On British Art

March 3rd, 2009

I admit that I’m a peasant when it comes to “art.” For example, take Jackson Pollock. (Please.) He was, I’ve read, a master of “working spontaneously with liquid paint.” He would take big canvases and throw paint at them. Or drip paint on them. Or splash paint on them. The artsy glitterati would then ooh and aah over them and pay huge amounts of […]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: art, Dave Barry
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